consulting
My next steps
In November I quit my job as the tech lead of the machine learning team at Archive360. Starting December 1st I am looking to provide my services as a machine learning consultant.
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blog
An update on 100 Days to Offload
It's been almost two months since I have started the #100DaysToOffload challenge. During this time I have managed to write 25 blog posts, which is more than I wrote last year in total. But in June I found myself posting less and less often. What's going
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New desk setup
Last week we were at my in-laws for a couple of days. We got back home late on Thursday. As I went upstairs, I took my backpack containing my work laptop to drop it off in my home office. I didn't bother turning on the light in the
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Yard work
Spot camouflaged Roland in the above picture I've spent two Saturdays in the past month doing yard work at my grandparents house. They are still alive, but they are staying at an aunt right now, so nobody has been taking care of their house since fall. Me and
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Four months of Bullet Journaling
I'm using diary and journal as synonyms. Some people say they are the same, others say there are differences between them. I started keeping a journal when I was in elementary school. I don't remember what made me start keeping a journal. It was probably the
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About time
Time, or at least our perception of it, is a very interesting thing. It's not only in Einstein's relativity theory that time is relative. I believe most humans feel that days go by slowly, while years fly by. As you toil away at work every day,
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Productivity Tips: Pomodoros
I sometimes have periods when I find it very hard to concentrate. When I was working in an office, this was made worse if there were many conversations going on around me. With the popularity of open offices, even if two people are talking 20 meters away, you can still
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Why I Have a Blog
In response to a thread on Hacker News, Jan-Lukas Else posted a response to common objections people had to having a blog. Quite a few people picked up the discussion and wrote their own blog posts about why they have a blog, including Kev Quirk, who then started the 100
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Reflections during COVID19 times
I was checking up on Twitter and I read a thread about simulations showing that any loosening of the isolation and quarantine measures will inevitably lead to overwhelming of the hospital system and deaths on the order of millions across the world. Despite the fact that I have been working
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Interview about working from home
This morning my friend David Achim, who's responsible for the Oradea Tech Hub, called me and asked me if I wanted to be interviewed about what's it like to work from home. Three hours later a reporter from ProTV was in my home (after I cleaned
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Vot 26 Mai
This post is about the europarlamentary vote and a referendum in Romania Și votez Da la ambele întrebări de la referendum, din motive similare cu ce expune Adrian Papahagi.
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Epistaxis
hemorrhage from the nose, usually due to rupture of small vessels overlying the anterior part of the cartilaginous nasal septum. Minor bleeding may be caused by a blow on the nose, irritation from foreign bodies, or vigorous nose-blowing during a cold The Free Dictionary Since I was a little kid